Solicitation of Applications for the Minority Business Opportunity Committee (MBOC) Program

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Minority Business Development Agency

[Docket No. 980901228-8228-01]

RIN 0640-ZA04

Solicitation of Applications for the Minority Business

Opportunity Committee (MBOC) Program

AGENCY: Miniority Business Development Agency, Commerce.

ACTION: Notice; extension of closing date.

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SUMMARY: The Minority Business Development Agency is extending the

closing date for responses to its announcement to solicit competitive

applications under its Minority Business Opportunity Committee program

which was announced in the Federal Register on September 8, 1998. All

other information in the prior notice remains the same.

DATES: Complete applications for the MBOC program must be mailed (USPS

postmark) or received by MBDA at the address below no later than 5 p.m.

Eastern Daylight Time on October 16, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Applicants must submit one signed original plus two copies

of the application, including all information required by the

Competitive Application Package. Complete application packages must be

submitted to: Minority Business Opportunity Committee Program Manager,

Office of Executive Secretariat, HCHB, Room 5073, Minority Business

Development Agency, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

If the application is hand-delivered by the applicant or its

representative, it must be delivered to Room 1874, which is located at

Entrance #10, 15th Street NW, between Pennsylvania and Constitution

Avenues. Unsigned applications will be considered non-responsive and

will be returned to the applicant. Failure to submit other required

information may result in points being deducted from an applicant's

score.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For further information and a Competitive Application Package contact

Stephen Boykin, the MBOC Program Manager, at (202) 482-1712.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 8, 1998, (63 FR 47480) the

Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA) published a notice

soliciting competitive applications from organizations seeking to

operate Minority Business Opportunity Committees (MBOCs). All

information required to submit a cooperative agreement application by

eligible applicants is contained in that announcement and in the

Competitive Application Package. By this notice, the MBDA is extending

the date to receive applications from October 8, 1998, to October 16,

1998.

Authority: Executive Order 11625 and 15 U.S.C. 1512.

Dated: September 22, 1998.

Juanita E. Berry,

Federal Register Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 98-25814 Filed 9-25-98; 8:45 am]

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